In 1937, the United States Army approached Hershey's Chocolate with one of the strangest product briefs in food history.
— ArchaeoHistories (@histories_arch) April 12, 2026
They wanted a chocolate bar, but they needed it to taste, in the words of the Army Quartermaster himself, "only a little better than a boiled potato."… pic.twitter.com/Oc4TpUcJM0
There used to be a rumor floating around among Iranians: that as part of the Nuclear Deal, Obama quietly handed out 3,500 green cards to regime officials and their families.
— Sana Ebrahimi Ledene (@__Injaneb96) April 12, 2026
At the time I thought it sounded crazy.
But now with so many children of top regime figures, professors,… pic.twitter.com/4LfkY98gKC
Daisugi is a 14th century Japanese forestry technique that allows growing and harvesting perfect tall trees from the upper portions of existing trees leaving the base and root structure of the “mother tree” intact
— Science girl (@sciencegirl) April 12, 2026
πΉ TheBrainMaze TBM pic.twitter.com/w2nk9q5BhI
40% of Canadians who would rank in Canada's top 1% of earners have emigrated to the US, along with 30-50% of the next 9%
— Tablesalt π¨π¦πΊπΈ (@Tablesalt13) April 12, 2026
This is from the Bank of Canada.
....and you wonder why they are discussing an EXIT VISA?
The ENTIRE power structure of Canada is being defunded.
One of the great political moves by the left in recent years has been convincing a large portion of America that we don’t already spend the vast majority of our money on healthcare and entitlement programs…
— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) April 11, 2026
Defense is only ~13% of the budget. https://t.co/CSnhI6zpFE
Guitars. Suits and ties. Western architecture. English and Spanish text.
— Devon Eriksen (@Devon_Eriksen_) May 6, 2026
What's easy to miss is that the generative AI is making its own, separate, political statement here. Not because it intended to, but because it had no choice.
Even human creativity consists mostly of… https://t.co/a8jk9dKqEM
This is the same reason that a lot of people, most of whom really aren't much more than LLMs themselves, say silly things like "there is no White culture"... because, like the very simple art machine, they cannot conceive of any alternative version of modernity.So nothing is Western to them, it's all just "modern".But of course it really is Western, because without Western Civilization, we'd all still be whacking at the dirt with sticks and dying of intestinal parasites.
Some people don’t really want to solve problems. They want to change the world for other reasons. That was the argument I made in Not Invented Here last year, a multi-author IEA publication that essentially elaborated on this meme…
One example is obesity, which we are told can only be tackled by fundamentally changing the food environment, banning advertising, taxing more products and demonising ‘Big Food’. None of this has ever actually worked anywhere. We do, however, now have GLP-1 drugs that work wonders for many people.Plenty of ‘public health’ academics are notably resistant to ‘fat jabs’ because what they really want is to fundamentally change the food environment, ban advertising, tax more products and demonise ‘Big Food’.
In 1948, a 32-year-old at Bell Labs published a paper nobody fully understood.
— Tech with Mak (@techNmak) April 12, 2026
Engineers found it too mathematical. Mathematicians found it too engineering-focused. One prominent mathematician reviewed it negatively.
That paper - "A Mathematical Theory of Communication", became… pic.twitter.com/NLViXSzrW2
Very true comment please watch the following video and never forget it https://t.co/9x5e5rEcPi pic.twitter.com/UNXwEA9nxW
— Carlos That Notices Things (@QuetzalPhoenix) April 12, 2026
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